Since ancient times, Chinese people have attached great importance to ethics. Although there were close relatives married in ancient China, such close relatives did not involve immediate family members. In ancient Egypt, the pharaoh could marry his own daughter and sister as his wife. Such an unethical marriage is unbelievable to us modern people, but it did exist in ancient Egypt.
Whenever we mention Egypt, we always think of the remote and mysterious pyramid. There were many gods in ancient Egypt. In the eyes of the ancient Egyptian people, the sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers and lakes were all gods.
In ancient Egypt, Pharaoh meant the palace where the king lived. Later, the pharaoh gradually became the general name for the king. Pharaoh claimed to be the son of the sun god Amunra, so the Egyptian royal family called himself a descendant of the sun. In order to maintain the "divinity" of one's blood, close relatives are very common in the royal family.
In ancient Egypt, most of them were brothers and sisters who were intermarried between brothers and sisters. There are also marriages of different generations, but they are rare. In ancient Greek mythology, the god Zeus married his sister as his wife. With gods as an example, it was very common for pharaohs to marry close relatives. Sometimes the king and the queen gave birth to daughters. The king can marry his own daughter as his wife.
Even in the eighteenth dynasty, Amenofi IV’s married wife was his biological mother, and subsequently he married himself and his mother’s daughter. In the ancient Egyptian royal family, princesses could only marry the royal family. In order to maintain their pure blood, close relatives were inevitable. So did the ancient Egyptian royal family really know the disadvantages of getting married with relatives?
However, it is not. The ancient Egyptian royal family claimed to be descended from the sun. In order to maintain the purity of the royal family, they must marry close relatives. At the same time, it is precisely because of this method that they increase their political weight and consolidate regime.
Most of the children born from close relatives were born with birth defects. This is also a reason for the demise of ancient Egypt!
